And at this moment.
Wu Zetian, who had been secretly helping the transmigrator among the refugees, sneered.
"Heh heh."
"What an idiot."
"Just wait. When you understand what it means for Fate to be ever-changing, you'll know that transmigration itself is fake."
"It was nothing more than a scripted play written by someone else."
Thinking of her own experiences, Wu Zetian could not help sneering.
Because what she hated most was the foolishly excited person she had once been.
She had thought she had transmigrated, become the protagonist, gained a cheat, and could forge ahead without obstruction.
She had even thought she could become a true Empress.
Bullshit!
It was all bullshit!
She had merely been toyed with in someone else's palm.
There was no mercy in this world.
No sympathy.
Everything was cold and cruel. Then she once again took the Emperor's side.
At this time.
After his initial despair, the Emperor began cobbling things together again.
He gathered the ministers and Plant Guard loyal to him and sealed off the news.
He did everything possible to contain the impact of losing seventy thousand men.
He scraped together another twenty thousand troops.
A rumor spread through the capital.
But it was quickly suppressed for inexplicable reasons.
This rumor should have greatly shaken the court's rule.
At the very least, it should have caused many officials to flee and many families to hedge their bets.
But this time, no such voices emerged.
News of Jiangnan spread from the court, then swiftly vanished again.
Then, by chance, the Emperor discovered a treasure left behind by the previous dynasty.
The national treasuries of the current dynasty and the previous dynasty used the same location.
Yet beneath the floor lay another Sealed Vault.
It was the kind of vault that only received deposits